Meanwhile in Sweden some good news. 70% of geriatric patients with Covid are surviving, although the elderly do make up the majority of deaths. 80% of ICU patients survive. 40 deaths today ... though disturbing reports of crowded nightclubs over the weekend (which appears to have ***ed Anders Tegnell off a bit). Hospital admissions, confirmed cases and deaths are all at the plateau stage. Tegnell (in line with math modelling predictions) thinks that herd resistance will happen in Stockholm next month.
Oh, and one consequence of the travel restrictions is that the summer workers who arrive from Thailand every year to pick bilberries in the northern forests (big business in Sweden) will not arrive this year, so they are having to ask Swedes to travel from the south to work in the northern forests. Here's a short piece on Swedish national tv which not many of you will understand, but if you want a quick glimpse of the high street in my nearest village up there, here you go (the man featured is opening a Museum of Berry Picking ... to go with the village's other museum ... of hats). Open in chrome for a translation of the text.
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/lokalt/n...8UQKm2WSAhO3DjJ8rnO-FDZYV14h-LfIQ3wpVo7gYD1W4